ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,144, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).

"Manager, electronic control unit, system, control method, storage medium, vehicle, and control apparatus" was invented by Kazuki Miyake (Okazaki, Japan), Yusuke Suetake (Toyota, Japan) and Atsushi Kuchinomachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manager installed in a vehicle includes: a first accepting unit that accepts a plurality of kinematic plans from a plurality of ADAS applications; an arbitration unit that arbitrates the kinematic plans; a calculation unit that calculates a motion request based on an arbitra...